Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has lived since 1980. He is the author of several books and has written extensively about modern poetry and Jewish literature. His most recent books are SCRIBE (Dos Madres Press, 2009), On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010), INSIDE THE GHOST FACTORY (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), TRACK (Shearsman Books, 2012), THE RATIO OF REASON TO MAGIC (Dos Madres Press, 2016), and FROM THE FILES OF THE IMMANENT FOUNDATION (Dos Madres Press, 2018).